Tag Archives: Continuing Anglicanism

The Great Meltdown

Update from Sunday 17.55 GMT: Father Stephen Smuts has completed the maintenance work on his blog, and there are new articles. * * * I begin to be quite “alone” as this blog somehow continues to be of some interest … Continue reading

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Splendid Article on Northern Ecclesiology

By Deacon Jonathan Munn of the ACC in the UK – Branching out of Yggdrasil. Our English and northern French culture is full of the old Norse mythology. It’s in our blood like the sea! Deacon Munn discusses the English … Continue reading

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The Desire for the Mitre

It is something I have found in the Continuing Anglican movement as in the independent sacramental movement in general. For those in the mainstream churches, it is difficult to know why everyone seems to want to be a bishop! There … Continue reading

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Sessio and Missio

I believe I have to some extent identified a characteristic that is fairly widespread in Continuing Anglicanism, and which seems to be at the root of many conflicts and contestations of power, especially between bishops. There is another aspect, which … Continue reading

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The TAC Bishops and Outside Scrutiny

The Roman Catholic lawyer Mourad has just sent another comment to Fr Smuts blog in response to Fr Robert, the “Irish Anglican”. I have esteemed this lawyer’s input for some time. It deserves our attention. It shows a distinction that … Continue reading

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Bishop Botterill on the TAC Tribunal

Some of us seriously question the tribunal recently conducted in India by some of the present hierarchy of the TAC. In the blogs, there are essentially two voices still discussing the question, that of Fr Smuts in Hepworth Redux and Deborah … Continue reading

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The TAC Tribunal and Archbishop Hepworth

Until now, I have kept silence on this subject as brought up by Fr Smuts in Statement from the The Traditional Anglican Communion College of Bishops Re: John Hepworth, with the exception of writing a comment on that blog asking about … Continue reading

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Lay hands suddenly on no man

Another request arrived by e-mail, asking me to comment on Fr Robert Hart’s article Yes it does matter. Initially, I was reticent as I have read a number of articles by this apparently quite erudite priest of the Anglican Catholic … Continue reading

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Freedom and the Mainstream

A friend of mine came to visit a few days ago whilst having an enjoyable trip to France. He had been a continuing Anglican priest in the 1990’s and returned to the Church of England, went through the selection process … Continue reading

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Retro Church

My attention has been drawn to the Retro-Church blog. It appears to be from the point of view of the Anglican Catholic Church. The tone is theological and from a conservative point of view, as would be expected. I find … Continue reading

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